2007-01-03 12:47:15 · 12 answers · asked by bubblemonkey23456 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Not all do. Like Liz says, the ones that do cannot pull their stingers out after stinging you so when they fly off, they leave the back third of their bodies behind. Picture your legs being torn off you.
An example of one that does is the Honeybee. One that does not lose its stinger and so does not die is the Bumblebee.
Bees almost never sting in anger. Of course, that makes some sense given most of the die if they sting. Be very careful with wasps though. They are usually angry and can sting MANY times before suffering. And they DO like to sting when angry.
2007-01-03 12:54:31 · answer #1 · answered by roynburton 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When a bee stings you, its stinger gets caught in your skin. As the animal pulls away, the stinger stays there, thus tearing out its attached entrails. Some bees can repeatedly sting but the common honey bee usually dies after the first one. Gory, I know. O_o
2007-01-03 13:38:10 · answer #2 · answered by Can YOU make me LOL? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are about 20,000 species of bees. Only honeybees die after stinging a large mammal like a person because the stinger is barbed and it lodges in the flesh and tears the poor honeybees intestines out. There are 7 officially recognized species of honeybee with about 44 subspecies all together. Bumblebees for instance do not die after they sting you, nor any other species of bee.
2007-01-03 12:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all species of stinging insects die after a sting. The ones taht do I think have the intestines attached to the stinger. When they fly off from their victim they leave the stinger and the intestines behind.
2007-01-04 09:34:22 · answer #4 · answered by army_wife20 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Above are true for some bees, but NOT all bees die after stinging you!
2007-01-03 12:50:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
female honeybees die after they sting. Their stingers are actually ovipositors, tubular structures extending from the abdomen that sometimes contain eggs. When the barbed stinger is left inside the victim, the honeybee mortally tears her abdomen in the process. Alas, she dies.
2007-01-03 13:00:11 · answer #6 · answered by BlOnDe 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because the stinger is pulled out of the bee causing a fatality
2007-01-03 13:19:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not true i know that bees can survive a sting and eventually grow back the pungiglione...
2007-01-03 13:05:51 · answer #8 · answered by lovephoto 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they have crooked stingers, so they get left in your body. without them the bees die.
2007-01-03 12:49:22 · answer #9 · answered by Yoni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause they use up there power and energy. But some of them don't die when they sting people.
2007-01-03 12:50:44 · answer #10 · answered by Aroya W 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋